March Wrap Up | 2023

so this one was like not my favorite of all of them just because I feel like it's a little bit messy there's like so many things going on and so many elements being brought in a way that was just a little bit overwhelming

but I really dug this I'm glad we're back in this world this was a solid four stars when I think when I first read it was like a 3.5 I found more to like about it this time around probably now having been in the world a little bit longer it was just kind of nostalgic to reread

this one was really fun we also got a really big step forward in the romance element here which was really enjoyable because there's is these two idiots who have a really hard time falling in love with each other and just need to communicate but they're both stubborn dumb dumbs and I love them so this was very fun four out of 5 stars

this was fine again I can see the writing skill here but I get about like a 3.5 much more sort of theme and quiet character work Focus than I was necessarily expecting

I ended up kind of enjoying this in a cotton candy read kind of way I flew through this I actually enjoyed the world

I didn't like this one quite as much as the first one it felt a little bit filler to me much more World building stuff I mean the World building in this series is pretty heavy and I like the World building but I wish we would have gotten a little bit more some of the character stuff I continue to like the characters and I didn't think it was at all bad and what it's setting up for the final book I think will be really interesting but this wasn't just quite as strong for me as the first book was so I gave this one still a 4 out of 5 stars

but this was written so juvenile to me like this was definitely very young y a where her other series the witchland series is very much like an older why a series in my opinion and just is more elevated than this and so I did not resonate with this

the character work though I do think is really excellent especially in the second half there were some really cool character stuff there's some skillful writing there and some themes there